St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

from a fearless realm to realm
of tears. couldn't do it." Wei
then, what do you want? A thou
sand voices in the audience cry out
Comfort, give us comfort" For tina
reason | have rolled away the stone from
the wells mouth. Come, allye wounded
of the flock, pursued of the wolves, come
to the fountain where the Lords sick
and bereft ones have come.
"Ah,' says some one, you are not ole
enough to understand my sorrows. Yor
have not been in the world as long as
have, and you CAN'T talk to me about my
misfortunes in the time of old age"
!. Well, may not have lived as long as
| you, but | have been great deal among
old people, and | know how they fee
about their failing health, and about
their departed friends, and about the
Loneliness that sometimes strikes through
their souls. After two persons have lived
together for forty or fifty years, and one
of them is taken away, what desolation
shall not forget the cry of the late Rev.
DIR. De Witt, of New FORK, when he stood
by the open grave of his beloved wife,
and, after the obsequies had ended, he
looked down into the open place and
said, Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife. The bond that bound US is
severed. Thou art in glory, and | am
here on earth. We shall meet again
Farewell Farewell" To lean on a prop
for fifty years, and then have it break
under you. There were only two years
difference between the death of my father
and mother. After my mothers de-
cease, my father used to go around
as though looking for something; he
would often get up from one room,
without any seeming reason, and go
to another room, and then he would
take his cane and start out and some one
would say: Father, where are you
going" and he would answer: II don't
know exactly where am going" AL
ways looking fer something Though
he was tender hearted man, never saw
him cry but once, and that was at the
burial of my mother. After sixty years
living together it was hard to part And
there are aged people to-day who are
feeling just such pang as that. want
to tell them there is perfect enchantment
in the promises of this Gospel; and I
come to them and offer them my arm, or
l take their arm and | bring them
to this Gospel well. Sit down, father or
mother, sit down. See if there is any,
thing at the well for you. Come, David,
the Psalmist, have you anything encour-
aging to offer them? Yes says the
Psalmist; they shall still bring forth
fruit in old age, they shall be fat and
fourishing, to show that the Lord is up
right, He is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in me-" Come, Isaiah,
have you anything to say out of your
prophecies for these aged people?
Yes" says Isaiah; down to old
age l am with thee, and the hoary
hairs will | carry thee" Well, if the
Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about your fail
ing eyesight and failing limbs. You get
a little worried for fear some time you
dren and grandchildren sometimes speak !
a little sharp at you because of your all !
ments. The Lord will not speak sharp. ,
Do you think you will come to want?
Who do you think the Lord is? Are His |
ven, and the rabbit, and the lion in the
desert, and forget you? Why, naturalsts
tell us that the porpoise will not forsake
its wounded and sick mate. And do you
suppose the Lord of Heaven and earth
has not as much sympathy as the fish of
the sea? But you say Il am so near
worn out, and am of no use to God any
more" think the Lord knows whether
you are of any more use or not if you
we're of no more use He would have
AIKEN you before this. Do you think
God has forgotten you because He
las taken care of you seventy or
eighty years? He thinks more of you
n do fho~. d.
hink more of Him. May the God of
Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob, and Paul
he aged, be your God forever!
But gather all the promises to-day in
group, and | ask the shepherds to
rive their flocks of lambs and sheep up
o the sparkling supply. Behold, happy
8 the man whom God correcteth."
Though he cause grief, yet will He have ,
ompassion." MANY are the Affections
f the righteous, but the Lord delivereth
i'm out of them all" "Weeping may
ndure for night, but joy cometh in the
forming" I am determined this morn
1g that no one shall go out of this house
ncomforted. Yonder is timid and
soul who seems to hide away ,,
'om the consultations am uttering, as a q
hid with sore hand hides away from :
he physician lest he touch the wound c
20 roughly, and the mother has to go g
nd compel the little patient to come out q
nd see the physician. So | come to '
our timid and shrinking soul to-day, .
nd compel you to come out in the pres
ice of the Divine Physician. He will !:
Of hurt you. He has been healing |,
ounds for many years, and He will give s.
ou gentle and omnipotent medicament. G
ut people, when they have trouble, go
lywhere rather than to God. DeQuincy u
ok opium to get rid of his troubles. + +
harles Lamb took to punch. Theodore t,
ook took to something stronger. v
1win Forrest took to theatrical dissipa- d
IN. And men have run all around the 4
nth, hoping in the quick transit to get
way from their misfortunes. at has
en- dead failure. There is oysly one :
I'll that can slake the thirst of an 81 81
iicted spirit, and that is the deep and b.
well of the Gospel. D,
But some one says in the audience: OF
all you have said this al
orning, l find no alienation for my n
'ubles." Well, am not through yet. 1 n
lave left the most potent consideration NJ
r the last. am going to soothe you n 4,
tn the thought of Heaven. However gs
kative we may be, there will come a es
ne when the stoutest and most en- al
attic interrogation will evoke from us ST.